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Rants & raves.


"I told Biggs, `Listen, dude, I've done this before, OK? I don't need the practice.' But ... he's [like], `Just come into my trailer, and let's just practice this a little bit. I've got the Altoids.'"

--Seann William Scott William Scott may refer to:
  • William Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, 5th Duke of Portland, English eccentric
  • William Scott, Lord Stowell (1745–1836), English lawyer
  • William L. Scott, U.S. senator from Virginia
  • W. Kerr Scott, a U.S.
, after receiving the MTV MTV
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U.S. cable television network, established in 1980 to present videos of musicians and singers performing new rock music. MTV won a wide following among rock-music fans worldwide and greatly affected the popular-music business.
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adj. & adv.
1. As shown on a movie, television, or display screen.

2. Within public view; in public.
 buss with Jason Biggs in American Pie 2

"He made up all that stuff about me [being gay]. I thought I should set the record straight on his mental state."

--Internet muckraker muckraker

Any of a group of U.S. writers identified with pre-World War I reform and exposé literature. The term, first used derisively, originated in an allusion Theodore Roosevelt made in 1906 to a passage in John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress about a man with a muckrake
 Matt Drudge, on why he reported that author David Brock had been "committed to [a] psychiatric ward" last year, as quoted by Rush & Malloy in the New York Daily News New York Daily News

Morning daily tabloid newspaper published in New York City. It was founded in 1919 by Joseph Medill Patterson and his cousin Robert McCormick as a subsidiary of the Tribune Co. of Chicago. The first successful tabloid-format newspaper in the U.S.
, May 23

"That's a baseball question. I'm not comfortable with baseball questions."

--NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue, upon being asked whether pro sports is ready for an openly gay player, as quoted in The [Newark, N.J.] Star-Ledger, May 30

"I killed Tara [Amber Benson, pictured]. Some of you may have been hurt by that. It's very unlikely it was more painful to you than it was to me. I couldn't even discuss it in story meetings without getting upset, physically. Which is why I knew it was the right thing to do."

--Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator Joss Whedon, on why he killed off the lesbian lover of young witch Willow (Alison Hannigan) in the season that just ended, as posted on the Web site Ain't It Cool News, May 22
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Publication:The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
Date:Jul 9, 2002
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